Welcome All to Multicultural Night at CMS.
The Media Center will be open one hour before the program begins. Students and Parents may browse for AR books, get help with finding AR books, preview Cobb Virtual Library resources and familiarize themselves with Destiny's web path express search engine.
Media Staff will be on hand to help with any questions.
Spring is the time when many books awards are announced. During March and April, the Media Center will be featuring award winning books in many categories. The two most widely known awards are the Newbery, for young adult novels and the Caldecott for picture books.
This year's Newbery winner is The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman.
This year' s Caldecott winner is The House in the Night illustrated by Beth Krommes, written by Susan Marie Swanson.
Other awards are: The Coretta Scott King Award: We are the Ship and the Blacker the Berry
Michael L. Printz
Pura Belpre
Laura Ingalls Wilder
Margaret A. Edwards
Mildred L. Batchelder
Odyssey
Schneider Family Awards
Theodor Seuss Geisel
Alex Awards
Robert F. Seibert
William C. Morris
We are into the 3rd nine weeks of using the Accelerated Reader Reading Enhancement Program at CMS. Information sheets on each students' progress toward their reading goal were distributed during the Student Led Conferences in late January.
Students' reading goals are set by their Study Skills teachers for each grading period, based on the STAR test which shows students their reading level. The STAR test was administered in August and December. The final STAR test of the year will be in May and will show students' progress over the course of the year.
www. arbookfind.com is the website that can be used to see ALL Accelerated Reader books that have accompanying reading practice quizzes. Quizzes on any AR book may be taken at school even if the book is not a CMS media center book.
Researching in the Media Center is a popular activity.
Students! You can access the research resources in Cobb Virtual Library from any internet connected computer, at home, at the library or anywhere. Passwords for these resources are available from the CMS media center and are posted in all classrooms.
Go to the Cobb County School District website http://cvl.cobbk12.org/ and study away!
P>S> No more excuses for not completing assignments due to lack of information!
Our School Improvement Goal in for students to be proficient in literacy across the curriculum...that means in writing and in reading. Sooo, readers, CMS is beginning the Accelerated Reader program, the web-based version.
Using this program, we can monitor student reading progress throughout the year. Over 120,000 book titles have AR quizzes available. Students and parents may go on www.arbookfind.com to see which books are included on the students' reading level. Reading quizzes on cmpleted books may be taken at school. Teachers sign off on student Book Logs found in their agendas.
Parents, check those agendas for instant info on what and how much your child is reading.
Watch for more details as we move forward in the implementation of this program.
The following websites have great ideas for promoting reading.
http://www.calicocookie.com/reasonstoread.html
http://www.scholastic.com/parentsread/
http://www.carolhurst.com/profsubjects/raisingreaders.html
http://www.gradebook.org/Primary%20Parents.htm
www.famlit.org : the website for the National Center for Family Literacy.
